Mine Shaft Conveyance Monitoring

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• Personal Author:
  Beus M ; Hasz W ; Iverson S ; McCoy WG ; Ruff, Todd M.
• Description:
  Technology to enhance safety during mine hoisting has been developed by researchers at the Spokane Research Laboratory of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Assessment of current hoisting technology suggests that monitoring conveyance position and load directly from the skip or cage top offers several significant safety advantages. Wireless data transmission schemes and a package consisting of sensors, batteries, and a charger mounted on the wire rope and skip have been developed. A state-of-the-art automated hoisting test facility was constructed to test the concept in a controlled laboratory setting. Field tests in a full-size shaft are underway. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Mining Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Workplace
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Hoisting-equipment Mine-disasters Mine-shafts Mine-workers Mining-industry Monitoring-systems Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Safety-research Underground-miners Underground-mining Workplace-monitoring

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• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Publisher:
  Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; Idaho ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 8 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  SRL - Spokane Research Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20027689
• Citation:
  1999 SME Annual Meeting, March 1-3, 1999, Denver, Colorado, preprint 99-83. Littleton, CO: Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, 1999 Mar; :1-4
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1999
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:76bbd8e7238c0efde5ab43f5f9654e462c739e908a6c788a0dfaf08c4826744a28ca1ecf70bc3c6106f1694f51d28cf15e30c151c4db009ad0a37dffa1af5a91
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/221066/cdc_221066_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.08 MB ]